Matteo D'Alessio

Matteo D'Alessio (died 1920) was a member of the D'Alessio brothers gang of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Biography
Matteo D'Alessio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of thirteen children born to a family of Italian ancestry. D'Alessio worked as a barber in addition to working as a criminal, joining his brothers in forming a gang. In 1920, Matteo, Ignatius D'Alessio, and Leo D'Alessio robbed Lolly Steinman's casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the gang's war with Enoch Thompson, and Matteo and Lucien D'Alessio were both sent to negotiate Chalky White's defection from Thompson. White pretended to be interested until the D'Alessio brothers told him that he would become so rich that he could drive a different Packard every day; White drew two guns and asked them how they knew that he drove a Packard. The brothers and Meyer Lansky were held hostage by White, and White choked D'Alessio to death after he promised to "string him up" even higher than his driver had been.